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Cerigo (island)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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Misc 1, Cerigo - England, 1802 - 1803

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/WMLK/4/1
Scope and Contents

N. B. The title by Leake is as inscribed on the cover but at the rear, the notebook has been inverted and a different travelogue recorded by him, beginning at Alexandria, continuing via Baalbek, Damascus, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, then to to Athens.
Includes pencil sketches of Mycenae’s Lion Gate and tholos tomb (Treasury of Atreus).
Cerigo is known today as Kythira.

Dates: Other: 1802 - 1803
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The castle and town of Cerico and port of Cerico-Kaspali, 1940 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30193B/2
Scope and Contents

This is reproduced from No. 20 of Edward Lear, 'Views in the Seven Ionian Islands' (London, 1863).

Dates: 1940 - 1970
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